Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry comprised of three phrases.
Traditional haiku uses 17 syllables (5:7:5) but contemporary haiku in English often ignores this rule. A haiku is typically about nature, the earth and the natural world and are designed to be thought-provoking. These original haiku poems are by Anthony Rutledge and are mostly written in the contemporary free style format.
There are over 2,000 Haiku on this site in ten different themes: Australian, Beach, Garden Sundial, In the Mirror,Kimono,Motherhood,Ships and Oceans,Spring,Windjammers and Miscellaneous.
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open tent
magpies in the Gum trees
a song at a time
camping
birds will be birds
such chatter about dawn
open tent
green and brown caterpillar
in a beak
camping
the colours of dawn
an incoming tide
camp fire
our waterfall showers
dried without towels
open tent
twilight darker
when the frogs begin
camping
the smells of the forest
mixes with rain
camping
a bee hive
being vocal to our smoke
open tent
such dense fog
holding the colour
camping
what cicadas don't know
in the last of their cries
camping
the nearness of stars
on the bedroom walls
camping
just enough clouds
to tattoo the river
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